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Lot 266: JOHANNES GAUFF (1804-1858)

Est: $840 USD - $1,120 USDSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 06, 2001

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Frau Konsul Schroeder, full face in off-the-shoulder blue dress with large puffed sleeves, a magnifying glass suspended from a black ribbon about her neck, drop gold earring, her centre-parted dark hair upswept and dressed in an Apollo knot signed 'J. Gauff.' (mid-left) octagonal, 31/4 x 3 1/8 in. (83 x 79 mm.), gilt-metal mount within pink moir‚ lined green leather travelling case with notebook LITERATURE U. Thieme/F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Knstler, Leipzig, 1920, vol. 13, p. 265. L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 283. EXHIBITION Mannheim, Grand-Ducal Castle, Werke der Kleinportr„tkunst, 1909, no. 325 (lent by Heinrich Leonhard, Mannheim). Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Bildnisminiaturen aus nieders„chsischem Privatbesitz, 1918, no. 538 (lent by Dr. Leo Catzenstein, Hanover).

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Auction Details

IMPORTANT PORTRAIT MINIATURES, GOLD BOXES & OBJECTS OF VERTU

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Christie's
November 06, 2001, 12:00 AM EST

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK